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52nd Year, No. 252 matter at Salem Oregon
Salem, Oregon
Monday, October 21, 1940
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French People
Warned of Fate
By Churchill
Germany Intent on Wip
ing Out Nation; French
men Urged to Rearm
London, Oct. 21 () Prime
Minister Churchill warned the
French people tonight that
Germany "is resolved on
nothing less than the com
plete wiping out of the
French nation" and urged
Frenchmen to "rearm your
spirits before it is too late.
In a fireside pep talk to the
people of Britain's fallen ally,
broadcast in both English and
French, he declared that Brit
ain is fighting for a victory which
"we will share with you" and said
all Britain asked of Frenchmen "is
that, If you can not help us, at least
you will not hinder us."
An apparent reference to Ameri
can aid for Britain came in this
passage of Churchill's fighting
speech;
Retribution Coming
"The crimes of Herr Hitler are
bringing upon him and upon all
who belong to his system a retribu
tion which many of us will live to
see.
"The story is not yet finished, but
it will not be so long. We are on his
track and so are our friends across
the Atlantic ocean."
Churchill's broadcast came at a
time when the Germans were ru
mored attempting to maneuver the
French into Joining forces with the
axis powers against the British.'
"Do not imagine, as the German.
controlled wireless told you, that
we English seek to take your Bhips
and colonies," the prune minister
remonstrated.
Only After Hitler
"The British seek only 'to beat the
life and soul' out of Hitler," he
continued.
Churchill reminded Frenchmen
that Britons have not forgotten the
"ties that unite us to the French
The British, he continued, "now
as ever," have command of the
seas and "in 1941 we shall have
command of the air."
Remember what this means, he
urged Frenchmen.
The prime minister made a bid
for the good will of the people of
Britain's former ally, declaring that
"when good people get into trouble
because they are attacked and
heavily smitten by the vile and
wicked they must be careful not
to get at loggerheads."
Appealing to France he said:
Appeals to French
"Frenchmen, for more than 30
years, in peace and war, I have
marched with you and I am still
marching along the same road to
night. I speak to you at your fire
sides, wherever you may be oi
whatever your fortunes are.
"I repeat the prayer around the
Louis d'or, (French cain): 'Dieu
protege La France.' (God protect
France)."
Declaring London is bearing up
well under German bombardment,
Churchill said;
"Our airforce has more than held
its own. We are waiting for the
long-promised (German) invasion
Then he quipped, "So are the
fishes." s
Asks Showdown
On Army Bombsighf
Washington, Oct. SI W) Senator
Holt, (D W. Va.), called on Secre
tary of War Stimson today to say
publicly whether Great Britain had
been given access to the army's
secret bombsight and whether the
British had been promised delivery,
"after the election Is over," of long
range bombers now In use by the
army.
Speaking during a senate session
that lasted only six minutes, Holt
told a half-dozen of his colleagues
who were present that he was pre
cluded from introducing an In
quiry resolution because of the "gen
tleman's agreement" under which
the senate will not conduct business
until after the election.
Missing Youngster
Well Described
Portland, Oct. 21 W The police
radio Saturday described a lost
youngster as "3 years old, wearing
shoes that don't match, a green
sweater and red pants, and having
a dirty face and badly In need of a
haircut."
The youngster was returned to his
parents IS minutes later. -
Draft Lottery
Set October 29
President to Draw First Number from Glass
Goldfish Bowl Used in World War Draft En
closed in Same Blue Capsules Then Used
Washington, Oct. 21 (ff)
the first number in the draft
Dr. Clarence A. Dykstra, selective service director, made the
announcement today after a conterence with the chiel execu
tive. Dykstra said the drawing would be held in the inter-
-departmental auditorium adjacent
Deny Long Aids
Court Review
Washington, Oct. 21 OP) Sey
mour Weiss, one of the chief politic
al lieutenants of the late Huey P.
Long in Louisiana, failed today to
obtain a supreme court review of
his conviction on a charge of using
the United States mails In a scheme
to defraud Louisiana State univers
ity. Two other defendants Louis Les
age and J. Emory Adams also were
denied a review. The three were con
victed of selling to the university
for $75,000 the furnishings in a New
Orleans hotel which the Institution
already had acquired in purchasing
the hotel.
Weiss, New Orleans and New York
hotel executive, was sentenced to
serve 30 months and was fined $2000.
Lesage, former assistant to the pres
ident of the Standard Oil company
of Louisiana, and Adams were sen
tenced to a year and a day and fined
$100 each.
Among other actions today, the
court:
Denied a review to Morton David
Bluestone, a Pittsburgh law student
who contended he was denied regis
tration for the state bar examina
tion because of previous membership
In organizations having communist
members.
Refused to pass on the conviction
of two men calling themselves "Je
hovah's Witnesses," on a charge of
breach of the peace at Drayton, S.
C. The men J. D. Langston and E.
F. Godwin contended they had been
deprived of freedom of speech and
of the press and of the right to
worship God.
Japanese Oil
Deal Hits Snag
Tokyo, Oct. 21 (U.B Reports of a
serious hitch in Japanese negotia
tions to obtain oil from the Nether
lands East Indies were followed to
day by a foreign office announce
ment that Seizo Kobayashl, chief of
the Japanese negotiators, was re
turning .to Tokyo.
The foreign office Insisted that
negotiations were progressing satis
factorily and will be continued dur
ing Kobayashl's absence by mem
bers of his suite and the Japanese
consul general.
A Dome! news agency dispatch
first reported Kobayashl's return.
Domel said Kobayashl, who is
minister for commerce in the cabl'
net, would leave Batavia, Nether
lands East Indies, tomorrow in the
liner Nichlren Mara to return to
Japan "temporarily," to attend cere
monies commemorating the 2,600th
anniversary of the foundation of the
Japanese empire, "and also to con
sult the government regarding his
mission."
Roosevelt Declines
Willkie 's Proffer
Washinttton. Oct. 21 (P) President Roosevelt, a secre
tary said today, is not accepting Wendell L. Willkie's offer to
share an auditorium with him in Baltimore October 30.
Stephen Early, the president's press
secretary .said that rather than
be in Baltimore or Washington on
that date Mr. Roosevelt probably
would speak at the Academy of
Music hall In Brooklyn, N. Y,
Asked whether the chief execu
tive had any disposition to accept
Willkie's challenge to debate, Early
remarked that it had been a "pub
lic" challenge.
Then he added to a reporter at
his press conference: "If I were
going to invite you to my home, I'd
send you the invitation, and I don't
think I d sent it if I knew you
weren't coming."
Originally, the secretary explain
ed, the president Intended to speak
on October 30 in Constitution hall
In Washington. But Chairman Ed-
President Roosevelt will draw
lottery at noon on October zv.
to the labor department building in
Washington, with the chief execu
tive pulling the first number from
the glass goldfish bowl used in the
World war draft.
Dykstra said they did not discuss
whether Mr. Roosevelt would be
blindfolded and that additional de
tails would be announced later by
his organization. But the draft
numbers, he said, will be enclosed
in the same blue capsules used in
the last draft. He showed reporters
one of them, with a small tag bear
ing the nubber 258 the first in the
lottery in World war days.
Dykstra said he did hot know who
would take over the bulk of the
drawing after Mr. Roosevelt had se
lected the first number, but that he
thought the process would take at
least 12 hours.
The numbers drawn will corres
pond with serial numbers assigned
to more than 16,500,000 men who
registered for selective military ser
vice last week. The order in which
the numbers are drawn will deter-
mine the order in which the men
in each draft area are called lor
service.
Drawings will continue until num
bers have been reached exceeding
the highest serial number assigned
in any selective service area. The
reason for exceeding the top serial
number, Dykstra said, is to "be sure
that late comers get a number."
Work Rushed
At Fort Lewis
Fort Lewis, Wash., Oct. 21 (P)
Fort Lewis officers and construc
tion crews rushed preparations to
day for arrival next month of the
first wave of Pacific northwest con
scrlptees.
Capacity of the fort's reception
center one of 12 flung throughout
the nation Is being doubled so it
can care for 1000 instead of 500 re.
crults at a time. It will be complete
long before the first of 14,151 draf
tees from Washington, Oregon, Ida
ho, Montana and Wyoming begin
arriving.
Rugged frame buildings are ris
ing in the reception area. They in
clude registration and medical ex
aminatlon buildings, mess halls and
clothing issue centers. A prelim
inary training drill field is being
cleared. Cement and wooden tent
floors are being laid and a tent city
Is rising.
At the reception center, draftees
will get their first district contact
with army life. It will be their tem
porary home until they are assign
ed to tactical units. As draftees
are moved to their permanent units,
new ones will come in, keeping the
center's facilities at capacity, army
officers said.
Preliminary draft estimates In
dlcate 14,151 men will be called to
duty at Fort Lewis before next July
1. The state totals: Idaho 1954
Montana 2563: Orgeon 2806; Wash
ington 6821 and Wyoming 1047.
ward J. Flynn and his associates on
the democratic national committee
suggested he make an address In
Baltimore.
Apparently, Early continued, they
did not know the only available and
sizeable auditorium in Baltimore
already had been leased by the re
publicans for that night. While Mr.
Roosevelt had said he might talk
In Baltimore, since then, Early said,
Flynn and others of the national
committee had urged him to follow
a tradition begun in 1933 of making
campaign addresses at the Brooklyn
Academy .of Music,
"They are looking into that," the
secretary said, "and I think the
president will do what they ask him
to on that."
ie Raps
f hird Term
As Dangerous
Precedent Likely to be
Used by Some Successor
To Destroy Democracy
Aboard Willkie Train En
Route to Milwaukee, Oct. 21
(P)Wendell L. Willkie, at
tacking President Roosevelt s
third term candidacy, declar
ed today that under "one man
rule" the first things to be
curbed are labor unions,
churches and education.
"The precedent once estab
lished, even assuming that
the president has the noblest
of motives, will be used by
some successor to take away this
life of ours," the republican nomi
nee said at Wausau, Wis.
He quoted letters from Thomas
Jefferson in support of his conten
tion that the two term tradition
should be preserved. Jefferson, he
said, once wrote that should
president ever consent to be a can
didate for a third term, "I trust he
will be rejected on this demonstra
tlon of his ambitious views."
Urges Debate
There is great danger, Willkie
contended, that once a president
has been elected for several terms,
he will seek the office for life.
Willkie began the final two weeks
of his presidential campaign by
urging that President Roosevelt de
bate with him In Baltimore Octo
ber 30.
The republican nominee, who two
months ago challenged the chief
executive to a series of debates on
national issues, said last night he
had been told that his backers ob
tained the only sizeable hall for
that dace.
"As a result," added a statement
issued from Willkie's train, "it is
understood Mr. Roosevelt was com
pelled to cancel his proposed Balti
more speaking engagement for that
date.
To Share Platform
"Mr. Willkie, in an effort to avoid
any possible Inconvenience to the
president or disappointment to the
people of Baltimore, has wired those
in charge of arranging his meeting
to get In touch with those who had
been arranging for the president's
appearance and offer to share the
platform with Mr. Roosevelt.
"Mr. Willkie infqrmed the com
mlttee he would be delighted to
have the president on the same
platform with htm In Baltimore."
The Baltimore talk will be one of
the last campaign addresses given
(Concluded on page 9, column 6)
Many Civilians
Killed in Berlin
Berlin, Oct. 21 (IP) An apartment
building in West Berlin was destroy
ed and numerous civilians were kill
ed and injured in last night's Brit
ish raid on the German capital,
DNB, German news agency, report
ed today.
The news agency said the British
dropped four explosive bombs on the
city in addition to a shower of in
cendiaries. Earlier reports sadl that only In-
dlary bombs fell on the capital in
the attack which sent Berllners into
air raid shelters for the first time
in five nights and which authorized
nazis characterized as "an outright
terror act against the Berlin popu
lation." An intensified U-boat campaign,
the high command reported today,
was responsible for destruction of a
British auxiliary cruiser of more
than 10,000 tons and of two British
convoys. In the latter attack, the
high command said, two submarines
participated.
"By so doing," the communique as
serted, "Lieutenant Blelchrodt in
creased the score of his latest cruise
against the enemy to 53,300 tons and
Lieutenant Schepke to 40,565 tons."
Torpedo planes were credited with
sending three "strongly protected
merchanters" totaling 20,000 tons to
the bottom of the east coast of Eng
land during the night.
Light German battle plane units
were reported to have carried out
'retaliatory flights on London and
other parts of Britain during the
night.
Educator Breaks Leg
Ashland, Ore., Oct. 21 WV-Dr.
Walter Redford, president of the
Southern Oregon College of Educa
tion, broke his leg in a fall yesterday.
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Billed For A Busy Day Carl J. Hambro, president of the Norwegian storting (parliament), Is snap
ped as he disembarks at the Salem airport with members of a local reception committee after a flight
from Portland this morning in a plane piloted b y Lee U". Eyerly. Members of the party, left to right,
are Theodore G. Nelson, Hambro, J. A. Sholseth, president of Thor lodge, Sons of Norway, which is
sponsoring Hambro's visit here, and Ernest Arneson.
Hambro Talks on
World Problems
. Isolation does not exist in the modern world and we can
not continue as civilized nations without international coop
eration, Carl J. Hambro, president of the League of Nations
assembly and of the Norwegian parliament, told a record
crowd at the Chambttr of Commerce" today noon. In connec-'
' tion with the league he declared
Italians Bomb
Bahrein Island
Rome, Oct. 21 iP) Stefanl, offi
cial Italian news agency, said today
a far reaching political motive be
hind Saturday's Italian bombing of
Bahrein Island in the Persian gulf
was the hope it would Incite antl
Brltlsh feeling In India.
"The Italian air force reached
clear to the gateway of English In
dia," Stefani said, "where the pop
ulation's ferment against the dom
inating nation is increasing daily.
The air action against Bahrein will
have world repercussions."
Yesterday's communique of the
Italian high command said Italian
planes flew 2,800 miles to bomb the
British oil center in the Gulf of
Persia, setting "enormous fires'
with hits on pipe lines, refineries
and tanks.
The Bahrein Petroleum company,
which conducts operation of the is
land Is described as a British firm
registered in Canada, which is
partly owned by Standard Oil Com
pany of California and the Texas
corporation.
Stefan! said the military success
of the "surprise" Bahrein Island
bombing arose from the destruction
or setting aire o! oil supplies which
"the enemy could have considered
unattackable and unreachable be
cause of their dlstar.ee from Italian
air bases."
The agency described the expe
dition as "the greatest flight since
the beginning of the war and a
most Important war-like action car
ried out against an extremely im
portant enemy center of fuel sup
plies." Moving Civilians
Out of London
London, Oct. 21 (IP) The govern
ment took steps today to expedite
the removal of London's civilian
population to places of safety out
side the capital and Improve the lot
of those compelled to stay in the
danger cone.
Malcolm McDonald, minuter of
health, advised authorities in the
reception areas to use their com
pulsory billeting powers "without
hesitation where necessary and to
make the fullest possible use of
empty houses."
McDonald disclosed that many
civilians are arranging themselves
to leave London and this exodus, to
gether with the government remov
als, necessitated more extensive use
of the billeting system.
To eliminate long lines in front
of public air raid shelters used for
sleeping, Herbert Morrison, minis
ter of home security, authorized
the London civil defense region to
Issue admission tickets as an experiment.
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that no Instrument is stronger than
the mind which directs it.
Hambro, making one of his three
public appearances today, is a large
man and master of several foreign
languages. He has a perfect com
mand of English and only a slight
accent in connection with certain
words. He addressed the Willamette
university chapel this morning and
will speak at the Leslie high school
auditorium at 8 o'clock tonight. He
is also former editor of the "Mor
genbladet," one of Norway's largest
daUy newspapers.
Need of new methods In diplom
acy and diplomatic relations was
emphasized, with people with new
kinds of knowledge and experience
taking the places of those hemmed
in by tradition.
"Importance of Intelligence de
pends upon the character and will
power behind it," Hambro declared.
"Where moral Issues are at
stake democracy means that every
adult must have opinions and if
shirkers of this responsibility are
in the majority, a aemocracy can
not stand." These shirkers the
speaker placed in the category of
the fifth columnist.
Because no country attempted to
meet the problem presented by de
mobilization unemployment has
dated since 1919, he said. This can
only be solved by using all experts
in labor conditions.
(Concluded on pnxe 9, column 6)
Kay Woolen Mills
Get Army Contract
Washington, Oct. 21 (U.B The war
department today awarded contracts
totaling $19,874,784, the major por
tion of which was for wool blankets
and aircraft parts.
Wool blanket orders Included Tho
mas Kay Woolen Mills Co., Salem,
Ore., $188,250, and Portland Woolen
Mills, Inc., Portland, $192,532.
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Windows Smashed in
New U.S. Embassy
London, Oct. 21 (P) Windows were smashed In the
United States' big new embassy building on Grosvcnor Square
in a recent nazi air raid, but the red brick, white-trimmed Co
lonial structure was not badly dam
aged.
No member of the staff was in
jured.
Permission was given today by
British censors to tell about it.
A German plane laid a stick of
bombs across the big square hi Lon
don's fashionable west end. One
demolished a house, damaged two
others across the square and blew
in a few windows of the embassy.
Another bomb failed to explode
Immediately, but dug Itself a deep
pit about 50 feet from the front
door. It went off a few hours later,
blasted more windows and hurled
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British Bomb
Italian Bases
Rome, Oct. 21 (U.B British air.
planes bombed northern Italy, where
Premier Benito Mussolini is making
an Inspection tour, and Italian North
and East Africa during the night, a
high command communique disclos
ed today.
Several persons were killed and
15 wounded in British raids on nor
thern Italy, industrial heart of the
country, a high command com
munique said.
Mussolini fs now on an inspection
tour In the north. Because of mili
tary secrecy surrounding his move
ments, it was not known where he
spent the night after leaving the
village of Ronchl Del Veglonari for
another part of the northern area.
Coming into Italy from Switzer
land, according to the communique,
the British planes dropped bombs
on Verona, In the provinces of
Favla and Alexandria, and on the
commune of Borgto Verezzl, near
Savona, and other parts of the ad
Jacent countryside.
In raids on Italian Africa, Brit
lsh planes bombed Decamre, kill
ing one person and wounding 11
and damaging a barracks, and bomb
ed Asmara, Gura, Agordat and
Massawa in Eritrea without doing
damage, the high command said.
Italian planes bombed military
targets In Kenya.
Leo Spifzbart
Seriously Hurt
Accidental discharge of a gopher
gun he was setting on his Polk
county farm Saturday aitemoon may
cast Leo Spltzbart, manager of the
Oregon state fair, the loss of
eye.
Spltzbart was almost oveT the gun
when It was discharged and ap
proximately 25 of the pellets struck
him about the side of his face and
forehead. He was rushed to the
Salem General hospital by private
automobile.
Attending physicians state that
while none of the fine shot direct
ly Injured the eye, there Is serious
danger of an Infection which may re
sult In the loss of sight In one eye.
soli and stones on to the roof and
against the front wall.
The inside was not damaged and
a spokesman said today "we're still
open for business."
Ten persons wero killed in the
same raid when a big German bomb
crashed near the YMCA hendquart-
era in Great Ruwel sAtcH, ota&Ung
out doors and windows and blowing
down Inside partitions. Between 400
and 800 members sheltered in the
gymnasium were not hurt.
Although the outside walls were
not badly damaged, officials said
they would not be able to use the
building again until after the war,
To Transfer Air
Battle Into
German Skies
RAF Stages Attacks
From Norway to Italy;
Berlin Badly Bombed
(By the Associated Fresi)
London. Oct. 21 Anti-air.
craft guns opened up a deaf
ening barrage in the London
area when darkness fell on
the capital tonight after ear
lier sporadic firing. The bar
rage signalled the return of
nazi raiders to (he city after
a day they had devoted aige
ly to scattered hit-and-run at
tacks on Britain.
Great Britain served notice
on Adolf Hitler today that the
RAF is girding to transfer the
air battle into "German skies
over German' fields" and that
"the day we can take the of
fensive steadily approaches."
This double-barreled warn
ing, voiced by First Lord of
the Admiralty A. V. Alexan
der and Colonial Secretary
Lord Lloyd, was further em
phasized by a London air min
istry statement declaring:
"Both ends of the Rome-Berlin
axis had a foretaste of the gather
ing strength of the Royal Air Force
last night, when the capital of the
German relch and two of Italy's
great industrial centers were simul
taneously bombed by aircraft on
the bombef command." ... "
Naval Docks Bombed
The air ministry also reported
that RAF raiders slashed at Ger
many's big naval docks at Hamburg
and Wilhelmshaven and a large
warship "It believed to hare been
hit."
Other RAP bombers attacked
Berlin, the great Krupp armament
works at Essen, oil refineries and
other military objectives.
Lord Beaverbrook, minister of
aircraft production, disclosed that
England now has more planes than
ever before, he said he would
not be satisfied until "the sky is
swarming" with them.
Late today, heavy explosions
across the channel indicated that
the RAP was hammering anew at
German-held invasion bases, which
last night underwent a 100-bomb-a-minute
assault by British air
men. Britain's intensified aerial counter-offensive
stung nazis to com
plain bitterly of "outright terror
methods.
Berlin Complains
Berlin reported many civilian!
killed and wounded as British war
planes, striking in several waves,
destroyed an apartment building In
west Berlin and showered incendi
aries and high-explosive bombs on
the German capital,
It was Berlin's first air raid in
five nights.
The Germans asserted that their
bombing squadrons had dropped 609
tons of bombs on Britain in one 24
hour period over the week-end.
Rome reported eight killed, 15
wounded by British raiders attack
(Conclmlcd on pane 0, column 8)
Dempsey Named to
Maritime Board
Washington, Oct. 21 (IP) Presi
dent Roosevelt today nominated
Wayne C. Taylor, former assistant
secretary of the treasury, to be un
dersecretary of commerce. Taylor
Is a Chicago banker.
Mr. Roosevelt also sent to the
senate the nomination of Represen
tative John J. Dempsey of New
Mexico to be a member of the fed
eral maritime commission for a six
year term starting last September
26.
Dempsey, who was an unsuccess
ful candidate for the democratic
senatorial nomination In New Mexi
co, will succeed Rear Admiral H. A
Wiley, whose term expired Septem
ber 20.
Portland Girl
Loses Life at Beach
Portland, Oct. 21 VP) Funeral ser
vlcts Titre htte VVv iat Mry tan
Tceple, 16, prominent member of
the Portland younger set. who was
killed Saturday at Gearhart.
A log from which she whs tossed
htr hloh hronkpm nn the bench rolled
over and fatally crashed her. She
was the daughter of L, R. Teeplt,
president of L. R. Tceple Co.